With tag: blue-green_algae

A bad summer for water
quality in Lake Champlain seems to be getting worse. Over the past week, hot
weather, low water levels and a huge bloom of blue green algae have combined to
cause a massive fish kill in Missisquoi Bay.

After last year's flooding, which sent record amounts of
phosphorous into the lake, and a recent streak of hot weather, blue-green
algae blooms have appeared in Lake Champlain earlier than normal this year, and have been more
widespread.

Blue-green algae have spread across a broad swath of Lake Champlain this
summer. A tour of the Burlington area by boat shows that the thick
blooms seen earlier in the week have been mostly dispersed by the wind
and
waves.